Long Eap Poems

For so long you’ve held the key, the scepter and the crown,
Harrowing the reality, the subconscious, the deep within.
Your voice was deep, poignant, forbidding. Clattering like,
The tumbling down of ancient and spidery bones, swishing
Like the...

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(A semi-true tale, with apologies to E.A.P...)

He bought it as a treat for she,
for times when they'd a wooing be
When he brought it home he'd seen
a pale, blue button on the machine
 
The button seem...

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The Craven
(with apologies to EAP)


Yesterday at my bail hearing, suddenly what I was fearing
Came with force of pounding gavel causing me to near unravel
Causing weakness in the knees, dreading future lawyer’s fees
Then I heard the...

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"Why be human? Why not Godly? Let's emulate Him" 
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Give few grains of rice to birds, a handful can feed many
In serving selflessly spend your day, all are a part of God though many
Verily God...

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On a dreary night in mid-December,
As well as I can now remember,
I sat and contemplated embers
Smoldering in the fireplace, dying.

Outside a bitter wind was howling,
Inside were flickering shadows prowling
'cross study walls as I sat rocking,
Watching...

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Once upon an outhouse dreary, while I strained there, lank and leery
of creatures scary down beneath the privy floor--
As my veins were close to popping, suddenly there came a whopping
rush of air, but nothing dropping,...

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But nevermore my harsh friend, for I hear Kipling poignantly 
Clearer now, when he beseeched “If neither foes nor loving friends 
can hurt you.” I am holding nothing against you. But allow me a wry...

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Our conscience bears witness—

in the way thoughts are excused

in the way actions are accused

by the inward manner bemused

of the acceptance of grace unabused






February 19, 2020
F F I series 76 eap
Brian Stand, sponsor

Regarding this, Brian Strand...

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eap(eep) is a list cinquain where L1 is a statement followed by rhymed L2-5 that amplify the statment with words introduced by 'in the' by the ' of the'.I labelled this an eap after Edgar...

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My mother was the  very best cook
In the beginning though she was not
And the very first pie she cooked got
In the house hidden out of sight in a pot
By the night thrown through floor...

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an ode to Poe:                               ...

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G ranted there are times when your
E nergy level has become inadequate
O r hind sight lost sight of for sight
R equiring a new regimentation
G ouged with gorgeous poems being
E levated to levels highly unknown requiring...

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